1852
January 17. Isidoro Bevilacqua performs Rossini's William Tell March (transcription by an unidentified author). Rio de Janeiro. January 17 (possibly the same recital as above).
Mme. Brillani (piano) and Demétrio Rivero (violin) perform H. Lanfont's Duo Concertante. São Januário Theatre, Rio de Janeiro. March 25. The Provisional Theatre is inaugurated, which on May 19, 1854, would be renamed the Fluminense Lyric Theatre (not to be confused with the Lyric Theatre).
It was closed in April 1875 and later demolished. Rio de Janeiro. April 14. Henrique Oswald is born in Rio de Janeiro.
November 21. Gustav van Marck performs two pieces of his own composition for solo piano: The Restlessness and The Banana Tree.
São Januário Theatre, Rio de Janeiro.

